Yeah, their pay is low too, but burger flipper isn't a career or profession any more than bag boy at the grocery store is. How much is burger flipping worth? How much expertise, talent, and comprehensive training does it require? How many hours of continuing education is required each year for burger flippers to maintain the license and professional certification?

But, on this forum, I've been advocating for a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Adjusted for inflation, what should it be now, something near $21 an hour? So don't complain to me about the level of pay that the kids at McDonald's are receiving because I'd love to see the liberals Democrats successfully get the minimum wage increase that they desire. I'm for it.

Yeah, their pay is low too, but burger flipper isn't a career or profession any more than bag boy at the grocery store is. How much is burger flipping worth? How much expertise, talent, and comprehensive training does it require? How many hours of continuing education is required each year for burger flippers to maintain the license and professional certification?

For how many people is this a viable career option anymore, really?If "yard boy" is the only work you can get to buy a can of beans for your family's supper and a pint of milk for the baby, that's what you do, especially since "welfare as we know it" was ended a generation ago -- despite all the continued right wing harping about lazy freeloaders sucking at the taxpayer's teat.

But, on this forum, I've been advocating for a substantial increase in the minimum wage. Adjusted for inflation, what should it be now, something near $21 an hour? So don't complain to me about the level of pay that the kids at McDonald's are receiving because I'd love to see the liberals Democrats successfully get the minimum wage increase that they desire. I'm for it.

Now that paragraph inspires that, if we can't convince you to become a socialist, maybe we can turn you from right wing to liberal?

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